I'll give it a shot, though a web page w/ screen shots might be easier to understand, but I'm going to do this as quick as possible.
1. Start cygwin 2. Type `startxwin.bat` (note: if you don't have this command, then there's probably a cygwin package that you need to install) 3. This will open up an xterm window, just minimize it. You can use `ssh -X` in this window to login to another machine. But since you mentioned putty, I'll continue... 4. Open putty 5. In the options on the left, go to Connection > SSH > X11 6. Check the 'Enable X11 forwarding' box (if you use a putty session, re-save your session if you want this to be done by default) 7. Click 'Open' to open the remote login. The environment variable DISPLAY should automatically be set to something like 'localhost:11.0' and you should be able to receive X windows locally. Hope that all makes sense.... Grant On 7/17/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I started to get into this question a few weeks ago and had to stop to earn some money. Yeah yeah - let's not get into that. I can use my home machine running Billyware to login to my office Linux box no problem. But I also need to run X Windows over an ssh session so I can get into some special tools on my office machine. I have installed Cygwin/x on my home machine but have not found a good "take me by the hand and tell me exactly what to do step by step" guide anywhere, just all kinds of hints that I should be able to do what I need with Putty & Cygwin/x. Does anyone know of one or can send me one? The office machine is running Ubuntu and the home is running XP. As I said I can already login at the command line but cannot run X anything over the Putty/ssh connection and yes I checked X11 forwarding. _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
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